Awatchfire

Las Animas County, Colorado

Schwachheim Fire

Burning 9.4 miles north-east of Raton and 11.0 miles south-east of Starkville, since Sunday 12 April.

Map of Colorado. The Schwachheim Fire burns 192 miles from Denver, and 192 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 192 miles from Denver.

1,582

acres burned so far — about 2 square miles

185

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Schwachheim Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 1,582 acres in Las Animas County, Colorado. The figures below are the official record. A satellite heat map and day-by-day history appear here as soon as detections are attributed to this fire.

100% held

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

1people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

185 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 12 April at 2:45pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 3 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

37.011, -104.374lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Lake Dorothy 4 Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 0.8 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Sw3 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 2.1 miles west, and has reached 145 acres. IA 1711 - Little Fisher's Mesa Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 2.3 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Post Fire started on Tuesday 11 August, 5.6 miles north-west, and has reached 4,335 acres with 1 people assigned. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 6:00am and 9:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 121 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

No satellite heat has been attributed to this fire yet — either it is too new for a pass to have caught it, or it is too small to register from orbit. Everything above is from the interagency incident record and updates as that record does.

How the record has moved

Each step is a change on the interagency incident record — acreage, containment or crews — with the date it was reported. No satellite reading is involved.

  1. Sunday 12 April

    First reported

  2. Friday 4 September

    1,582 acres on record — 89% contained, 1 personnel assigned

    1,582 ac · 89% held · 1 crew

  3. Tuesday 15 September

    Containment 100%

    1,582 ac · 100% held · 1 crew